windows is very cheap. $200 for an operating system? before windows came along and made a personal all purpose OS, software was very expensive.
Art On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:53, Erin Sharmahd wrote: > one thing that kinda bugs me about comparing windoze to fast-food is that > fast-food is cheap.. it's fast too, but if it was more than 4 or 5$, people > wouldn't buy it... they'd go someplace else. windoze is _not_ cheap... it's > very expensive... > i think we're missing one of the major reasons why a lot of people don't use > linux. this is a reason that we can help to fix: a lot of people don't realize > that it's an option... > some people don't realize that it exists... others don't realize that there > are now graphical front-ends to it. i remember when i first heard of linux, i > thought it was just a command-line... that interested me, but it scared me > too... > ~Erin > > > > sometimes your time restraints are such that the time you save by going > > to arby's is worth the cost of the $4 sandwitch. In some situations, the > > precooked solution is more economical. > > > > > ===== > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > http://www.userfriendly.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
